Fix a comment and some commented-out code in ip_mloopback to

reflect how multicast loopback really works.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/sys/netinet/ip_output.c b/sys/netinet/ip_output.c
index 68d30c7..0ca3ee2 100644
--- a/sys/netinet/ip_output.c
+++ b/sys/netinet/ip_output.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
  * SUCH DAMAGE.
  *
  *	@(#)ip_output.c	8.3 (Berkeley) 1/21/94
- *	$Id$
+ *	$Id: ip_output.c,v 1.51 1997/02/22 09:41:36 peter Exp $
  */
 
 #define _IP_VHL
@@ -1310,18 +1310,17 @@ ip_mloopback(ifp, m, dst)
 		}
 		/*
 		 * NB:
-		 * We can't simply call ip_input() directly because
-		 * the ip_mforward() depends on the `input interface'
-		 * being set to something unreasonable so that we don't
-		 * attempt to forward the looped-back copy.  
-		 * It's also not clear whether there are any lingering
-		 * reentrancy problems in other areas which might be
-		 * exposed by this code.  For the moment, we'll err
-		 * on the side of safety by continuing to abuse
-		 * loinput().
+		 * It's not clear whether there are any lingering
+		 * reentrancy problems in other areas which might
+		 * be exposed by using ip_input directly (in
+		 * particular, everything which modifies the packet
+		 * in-place).  Yet another option is using the
+		 * protosw directly to deliver the looped back
+		 * packet.  For the moment, we'll err on the side
+		 * of safety by continuing to abuse looutput().
 		 */
 #ifdef notdef
-		copym->m_pkthdr.rcvif = &loif[0];
+		copym->m_pkthdr.rcvif = ifp;
 		ip_input(copym)
 #else
 		(void) looutput(ifp, copym, (struct sockaddr *)dst, NULL);